10 Retro Video Games The World Will Always Love

4. Pac-Man

Pacman It's amazing how a game that makes so little sense became such a humongous hit with the masses. I am unable to see how this idea of a game rubbed well €“ a yellow hockey puck-like thing eating tiny mysterious pellets while running from brightly coloured ghost-like hovering creatures. Once a while the puck gobbles power-pellets that enable him to then gobble the ghosts, but beyond this there is very little anything else that happens in the game. Yet it has enthralled gamers around the world over decades despite the obvious futility it entails. You simply cannot win. It's like trying to drill a hole in a wall with a toothbrush. The sad fact of the game is that eventually you just have to die. Level after level, pellet after pellet, ghost after ghost €“ regardless of how far you get, it's all about dying, dejection and disappointment in the end. If you happen to be one of those brave, jobless souls to manage to reach the split-screen level then the game dies on you, without really leaving you with a feeling of completion. There's no catharsis, no fruition of all the sweat and blood you put into winning the game. Perhaps it is a metaphor for what life actually is - just a series of meaningless events put together with bursts of gluttonous gobbling of food. Then you die.
 
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I'm Saahil from India and no, I don't own an elephant. I write. I think P. G. Wodehouse might just be the greatest author of all times. Manhattan was definitely Woody Allen's masterpiece (yes, over Annie Hall). The Shawshank Redemption is overrated. I love debating. I've always dreamed of shooting zombies with a sawed-off during an apocalypse. I own a dog. The Sixth Sense was a fluke. Sheldon Cooper is probably the worst TV character right now. I play table tennis. I am socially awkward. I don't know how to end this. My editor's probably going to cream me for this. But, whatever.